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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Well, so, here I am, late as usual! LOL Always too much going on. I think I'm going to have to do some spring trimming of activities so I can focus on priorities (crafting)!

I made this card for my youngest son's 19th birthday, which was Saturday (April 13). I used the sketch at CAS(E)ThisSketch, but forgot to post it by yesterday! Luckily the other challenges I can still enter-- Dream Valley Challenges and One Crazy Stamper! Oh well. I didn't follow the sketch verbatim either so just as well.

Since I had started with the sketch, I chose the wheels and checkered background stamps from Tim Holtz to make my diagonal border piece.

And used the same checkered stamp for one of my sentiment tags. At first I had just cut the border straight, but then decided to fussy cut it and I like it much better this way. The basketball player and hoop I found online and is a silhouette digital clipart part of a set of basketball silhouette clipart that is free to download. On the backboard I added some Carolina blue and the UNC Tarheel logo (also a clilpart download) using Photoshop Elements. For those of you who don't know, my son is a sophomore at UNC Chapel Hill and a sports journalism/sports admin major. His ultimate dream job is to be a commentator at ESPN! Big dreams! So thought the sentiment was appropriate! And for added sportsy fun, I added the #1 finger stamp.